After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

One of the greatest challenges facing Pope Leo XIV is financial. He has inherited the Holy See’s chronic, 50 million to 60 ...

Pope Leo XIV has met with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory commission for the first time amid questions ...

Pope Leo XIV is visiting the papal summer palace south of Rome. His visit is fueling speculation about whether he will use it ...

Suddenly I heard the most beautiful noise I have ever heard in my life: the sound of tens of thousands of people cheering as ...

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American to lead the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being a U.S.

As a lay Catholic myself, I consider my secular writing, speaking, and teaching to be the principal way that I share my faith ...

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico – In a world quickly turning against migrants, Pope Francis came here, to this dangerous crossing point, to bless them. Migrants are our "brothers and sisters," he said in ...

When Pope Francis died, the morning after Easter, prominent right-wing Catholics leapt at the chance to lobby for a more conservative, even Trumpian, leader of the Church. Far-right pundit Jack ...

At a moment when the rest of the world is constantly responding and reacting to the moves and statements of the Trump administration, the new head of the Roman Catholic Church is an American.

The papacy is a global platform, so the issues Pope Leo chooses to focus on can resonate far beyond the church. By Motoko Rich Reporting from Rome Just days into the papacy of Leo XIV, the new ...